This is one of those happier incidents where a band breaks up and comes back stronger than before. The short story is Will Currie and The Country French called it…
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Rob Ross
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Coming from Oxford, Mississippi, Young Buffalo are about to make their mark on music with this fine debut album, House. A five-piece, Young Buffalo are like a fresh breeze on…
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Rob Ross
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After a year of musical triumphs, this is a perfect way to end 2014. A wonderful mixture of classic sounds, harkening back to the likes of The Beach Boys, The…
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Rob Ross
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Clean, neat and warm sounds fill this latest release from Boston’s The Grownup Noise. A full mix of acoustic guitars, piano, violin are part of the mix that color The…
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Rob Ross
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Okay, this is the shit – straight up. Some very obvious hook-mastery and full-bodied classic power pop but then it gets weird and spikey in an XTC kind of way. …
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The ultimate irony: a SoCal power-pop band that self-admittedly strives to include every Californian stereotype into its vibe and music. The sun, the seemingly endless freedom, the youthful energy, the…
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Keith Creighton
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This past week I was messaging back and forth with one of our avid readers, Benjamin, about the dearth of good power pop bands in my 2014 Popdose posts — when alls a…
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Rob Ross
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You could make the argument that this is one of those reviews that just writes itself. On first hearing the name of the band, I thought “Who fans”, since instinct…
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Rob Ross
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First, I should thank the incredible Cyndi Dawson of The Cynz for having an intuition that I would like this band and their music. She was/is completely right. Second, I…
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Rob Ross
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I initially talked about Charleston, South Carolina-based A Fragile Tomorrow over a year ago, when I first heard and reviewed their (at the time) newest album, the splendid Be…
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Thierry Côté
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With a name that knowingly evokes the Beatles and the pinnacle of pop songwriting, The Paul & John set expectations sky-high for their debut album. In Inner Sunset, the fruit of a…
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Rob Ross
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Pleasing rock-pop is how I would describe this debut album from Los Angeles’ Dream Alive. Before The Dawn has structure, good production, melodies, harmonies and even if it is a…
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Rob Ross
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I said that if the “taster” single, “Everybody Sometimes” was an indication of how this album would go, then Glenn Tilbrook’s Happy Ending was bound to be as much of…
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Rob Ross
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I don’t know anything about this band from Vancouver, B.C., but upon first listen, The Shilohs self-titled sophomore album has shades of another melodically-infused band’s maiden release… Of course, I’m…
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Dave Lifton
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All of us who have had written reviews have had had the same answer shot back at us by a fan of a band we slammed. ”Oh, yeah?” it starts….
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Rob Ross
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This Jersey Shore trio of power-popsters are another find, courtesy of Deirdre Gilmartin’s The Independent Stage radio program and quite a find they are. It may be inappropriate to say…
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Rob Ross
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I’ll get right to the point: this album is wonderful. Richard X. Heyman, the New Jersey-native/guitar legend delivers on every level with this, his tenth solo album, appropriately titled X. …
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Dave Lifton
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A review of the tribute to Big Star’s “Third” album at Chicago’s Park West
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Popdose Staff
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Funk, power pop, adult contemporary, Eurodisco — there’s a little something for everybody this week! Or, as Dw. Dunphy (who is never at a loss for words) put it, ”I…
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Popdose Staff
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We’re back in the ring to take another swing, and ain’t nothin’ left to it but to do it. Let’s dig straight into Disc Two of this seven-disc compilation. After…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Free Energy’s latest is unpretentious, and every now and then that’s all you need.
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Keith Creighton
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Give two critics THREE months to listen to one album, and of course we will wait ‘Til Tuesday to publish our reviews. Which in this case is quite appropriate. Up…
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Blerd Staff
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Fiercely talented pianist, purveyor of smart-ass wit, humanist and surprisingly moving storyteller, encyclopedic and agreeably nerdy singing-contest judge; Ben Folds has been accumulating his vast fanbase for two decades now, sucking listeners in w…
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Mike Duquette
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Blame the ever-widening gulfs between how music is made and consumed, but there just aren’t many great “before they were stars” stories in pop music these days. I’m not talking…
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Mike Duquette
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In a recent thought piece on The A.V. Club, Josh Modell ruminated on the dilemma of bands touring endlessly around the hits that made them famous, even as they continue…
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Rob Smith
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Brandon Schott’s latest album, “13 Satellites,” is really good. Just ask Rob Smith …